COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) – Incumbent Hugh Weathers has won the Republican primary for South Carolina’s agriculture commissioner.
Early returns show the 57-year-old Weathers winning Tuesday’s Republican primary with 64 percent of the vote over Joe Farmer.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) – Richland County Council member Joyce Dickerson has won South Carolina’s Democratic primary to face U.S. Sen. Tim Scott.
Early returns showed the 68-year-old Dickerson winning Tuesday’s primary with 67 percent of the vote over former York County Council member Sidney Moore and Myrtle Beach attorney Harry Pavilack.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)-Bob Livingston has defeated his GOP primary challenger in his bid to be re-elected South Carolina’s top military officer.
Early returns in Tuesday’s primary show Livingston with 77 percent of the vote over 45-year-old James Breazeale. Livingston has no opposition in November.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — There are more problems in Richland County as South Carolinians go the polls for primary voting.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — General Electric is breaking ground for an advanced manufacturing facility in Greenville.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina is now the 49th state to ban texting while driving.
Richland County, SC (WOLO)-An investigation in Richland County continues tonight.
Investigators are trying to figure out how a meth lab exploded. Authorities are trying to locate two adults and a three month old child following the explosion this morning at regency mobile home park on alpine road.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn has easily won the Democratic primary in the state’s black-majority 6th Congressional District. Clyburn swamped Dorchester housewife Karen Smith as he starts his bid for re-election. Clyburn was the first black elected to Congress from South Carolina since Reconstruction and is the dean of the state’s congressional delegation Clyburn captured 85 percent…
Donella Wilson, 105 years old, hasn’t missed a vote since being granted the right to vote in 1947. Her first ballot was cast in 1948.
Interim Director for the Richland County Elections and Voter Registration office says ‘minor hiccups’ in Tuesday’s primaries do not compare to what has come to be known as the election debacle of 2012-2013.
